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Bloomberg: Microsoft Mistakenly Posts Secret Game Plans to Government Site
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DrFigs
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sounds like the guy who came up with that plan should also be fired!
X-Wing
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Microsoft explains how China stole one of its secret keys
Mistakes were made, lessons learned, stuff now fixed, says Windows maker
www.theregister.com
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
Paid websiteMicrosoft Corp. mistakenly uploaded confidential information about its video-game operations to a federal court website, according to a person familiar with the matter and a post from a Federal Trade Commission employee.
Microsoft Mistakenly Posts Secret Game Plans to Government Site
Microsoft Corp. mistakenly provided confidential information about its video-game operations to a federal court website.www.bloomberg.com
Topher
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El Pistolero
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Ree on suicide watch. Somebody check on the smurfs please...
Freelance Yakuza
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What they said?
Sethbacca
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Not only will they defend it they’ll champion that MS deserve to buy Ninty.
Buggy Loop
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Someone enlighten me but, wherever it was uploaded to government, it's not public files and they all have highly confidential markings. Who thought it was something they could leak publicly anyway?
DeepEnigma
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hepfom
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the website was a public website intended to give the public access to evidence during the trial. It should've been redacted by Microsoft.
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It sounds like the cover letter was what was supposed to be uploaded.
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Buggy Loop
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DenchDeckard
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I was actually joking.
Yeah, ain't no way any business would leak all this stuff.
balls of snow
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They will ignore it I bet. Show must go on. Never not being boring corporate entity.
OmegaSupreme
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Had me in the first half. Cock was in hand.
Elder Legend
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Bernoulli
M2 slut
the nintendo thread is spencer's defence force and corporate boot licking
Banjo64
cumsessed
To be honest all I want is for Satya to pull the plug on this division and for Microsoft to get out of gaming.
The way they flippantly list these companies to buy like they are browsing in the fruit and veg isle, they don’t care about integration or cultural differences, it’s very pathetic.
Phil’s ‘getting Nintendo would be a career moment (for me)’ just shows what an arrogant self centred man he is.
The way they flippantly list these companies to buy like they are browsing in the fruit and veg isle, they don’t care about integration or cultural differences, it’s very pathetic.
Phil’s ‘getting Nintendo would be a career moment (for me)’ just shows what an arrogant self centred man he is.
splattered
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nah just blows me away that mistakes like this happen haha the sharpie redaction fails and now this.. i'm really curious to hear more about how this shit happened exactly and who is responsible etc.
splattered
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Ahh i was wondering if this was related to the AI research breach... lmao crazy.
graywolf323
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just further demonstrating that he’s just the ultimate used car salesman, I’ll never understand the cult of personality around him
Walter Matthau
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Basically the idea would be to silently acquire Nintendo stock over time and then swoop in the next time they have another hardware crisis via a hostile takeover. Nintendo is cash rich and has been buying back stock in large clips these past couple years so this is all a pipe dream at this point, but this email exchange will be enough to cause some major tension regardless.
Cyberpunkd
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Phil: “It’s only business bro”
Basically the idea would be to silently acquire Nintendo stock over time and then swoop in the next time they have another hardware crisis via a hostile takeover. Nintendo is cash rich and has been buying back stock in large clips these past couple years so this is all a pipe dream at this point, but this email exchange will be enough to cause some major tension regardless.
ComputerBlue
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Lol. I was already reading in other places that FTC was the culprit, that Microsoft would sue, FTC would be killed and free acquisitions for everyoneReality is always...different.
When you don’t take a moment to think before you REEEEE.
Jinzo Prime
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And to think, Satya Nadella wanted to close the Xnox division years ago, but alpha gamer Phil managed to convince him to keep it open! Where would we be without Phil showing us the true incompetence of his entire corporation! Thanks guys! 
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"our most likely path to consumer relevance."
Basically the idea would be to silently acquire Nintendo stock over time and then swoop in the next time they have another hardware crisis via a hostile takeover. Nintendo is cash rich and has been buying back stock in large clips these past couple years so this is all a pipe dream at this point, but this email exchange will be enough to cause some major tension regardless.
Written about 3 months before this gen launched. WOW
SEGAvangelist
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"our most likely path to consumer relevance" is in reference to gaming, not Nintendo. MS doesn't have another popular consumer brand outside of Xbox.
Yes. 100%. Still said it in the context of why they should buy Nintendo though, a mere 3 months before SX launched. Sorry not sorry, that is hysterical to me.
SEGAvangelist
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What's hysterical about putting it in that context? I get the humor in buying Nintendo of course, but Nintendo as a boost to their most popular consumer product doesn't seem weird.
They were on the verge of a console launch and still looking for external solutions.
MS staffer uploaded the wrong files.
SEGAvangelist
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Halo reaction and delay will do that.
Hypereides
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Just caught up to the leaks. Wow, that's some sinister scheming. Old Microsoft never left. Hope it gave Nintendo a new view on their "friendly" competitor.
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
Thing is, I bet Sony has a pile of similar emails, findings, plans and expectations. They just didn't leak them.
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DeepEnigma
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Everyone else shouldn't suffer for their own incompetence.
Bernoulli
M2 slut
They didn't tweet anything in 24 hours
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
I remember fuck all from that movie except that part.
Robb
Gold Member
Of course, so does Nintendo. Well, any company that makes plans long-term really.
Things always tend to leak in relation to court cases though. Although this has been exceptionally excessive, which is fun.
yurinka
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Seems someone is going to be fired and sued at Microsoft.
"Gaming is our most likely path to consumer relevance."
It doesn't say:
"Acquiring Nintendo is our most likely path to consumer relevance."
He sounds what he's talking about, as if he was a paid PR shill in charge of leaking the real controlled leaks.
Seems you didn't read the last 3 lines, where he explains why this acquisition didn't happen and won't happen. Also, the subject of that pre-Xbox Series release 2020 email is 'random thought'.
Basically the idea would be to silently acquire Nintendo stock over time and then swoop in the next time they have another hardware crisis via a hostile takeover. Nintendo is cash rich and has been buying back stock in large clips these past couple years so this is all a pipe dream at this point, but this email exchange will be enough to cause some major tension regardless.
The mail says:
"Gaming is our most likely path to consumer relevance."
It doesn't say:
"Acquiring Nintendo is our most likely path to consumer relevance."
He sounds what he's talking about, as if he was a paid PR shill in charge of leaking the real controlled leaks.
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kvltus lvlzvs
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I dont know where you got "wont happen" - I get a distinct "long game" vibe from this rather than a "wont happen", possibly because they explicitly state that.
Also, the email subject line is inconsequential - they are detailing plans that are at least partially already in motion, with dialogue already happening between writer and a MS BoD individual who has bought into Nintendo.
StreetsofBeige
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No wonder. I thought there was some leaker mole guy dishing out confidential info to the public.
Amazing how people are so careless. The guy was probably asked to upload files and just did a giant copy and paste of files without even looking at them. Lol
If I was him I’d be brushing up my resume right now.
Amazing how people are so careless. The guy was probably asked to upload files and just did a giant copy and paste of files without even looking at them. Lol
If I was him I’d be brushing up my resume right now.
I Love Rock 'n' Roll
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SOOO, they are just worse in every possible ways than worse SEGA! What a bunch of idiots and loosers! What's next cause I can't see it spot now...
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